WD Cavier Black 2TB or WD Elements 2TB as EXT HDD

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  1. LunarWolf

    LunarWolf Registered Member

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    How is that? When I open my My computer page, it displays as GB not GiB :confused:
    Shouldn't the My Computer page be showing GiB instead of GB?
     
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    Ok. So that means I did get my space back in My Passport HD?
     
  4. Brian K

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    My three 2 TB HDs are reported as 1863 GB (Microsoft terminology) in Disk Management. That is really 1863 GiB.

    2 TB = 1.82 TiB = 1863 GiB

    A quick way of doing this is to multiply the Manufacturer's GB number by 0.93. So a 1000 GB HD would be 930 GiB. Disk Management would show 930.

    Edit... You can look at your drives and partitions with IFW/IFl/IFD/TBOSDT/BIBM. They report size in MiB.
    If you create a 50,000 "MB" partition in Disk Management then IFW will report it as 50,000 MiB.
     
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    Few more questions.

    1. If I go for ext hd, which brand should I pick? WD, Seagate, Buffalo, Transcend. All have 3 yrs warranty.
    2. Is it better if I burn my data to bluray disc then getting a HDD?
    3. Regarding Q2, which is better single layer or double layer?
     
  6. Brian K

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    Optical media is good for watching video. Not to be fully trusted for your backups.
     
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    But iread that in a forum, there is this guy who was an IT support guy, he sateted once his company's HD fail and his company manage to restore everything back cause of optical media. The extra HDs some have problem.

    The there is this person in a malaysian forum stated that I should burn to ptical media cause he burned to a verbatim disc in 2006, the disc is still readable.

    I was thinking of burning into optical media and put into external HD
     
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    Using an external HD plus optical media is fine. I misunderstood and thought you were only going to use optical media.
     
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    So my questions again

    1.Which brand should I pick? WD, Seagate, Buffalo, Transcend. All have 3 yrs warranty.
    2. What is the difference between single layer and double layer bluray?
     
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    I recommend Seagate.:thumb:
     
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    WD are excellent. We had one fail 7 years ago but none since. Buffalo stuff is pretty good in my experience. Seagate fails more often than not. Never used Transcend.
     
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    FYI. Blue-ray Disc Format.
     
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